I just need to rant and rave here for a minute! I am so mad at where I work!!!
Monday I had some really bad pains, so hubby took me to the hospital, but it was only false labor. It stopped shortly after that. But while I was there, the doctor told me I shouldn't be working in really hot conditions, since I am so far along, and my feet and ankles swell up so bad in the heat and I get really sick to my stomach.
Well, I work in a factory, and it gets terribly hot in there, sometimes up to 100 degrees or better, and so the doctor wrote me a note saying I shouldn't be working in heat over 80 degrees.
Well it hits 80 degrees at about 9:00 am, I work from 7am-3pm.
So I thought maybe they could find me something to do in the office for awhile, I am due anytime between now and the end of this month, so it would only be a couple weeks or so, unless I go past my due date (god forbid).
I have been there 13 years, so you would think they could accommodate me somewhat, and let me file papers or something....it is air conditioned in there....but oh no!!!!! That would just be too much to ask!!! They told me if they do this for me, they would have to do it for everybody!!! Ya, like everybody has a note from their doctor saying they can't work in temps above 80.
So they told me that I will have to drive into work every morning, and just keep an eye on a themometer...and when it reaches 80, I can leave. Well some days that may be only 2 hours after I get there!! And some days it might be 80 already when I walk in the door! It gets really hot in there, very fast, because of the ovens in the middle of the factory that burn lacquer onto the wires we work with.
And also.......not only that, but I won't get paid everytime it gets too hot for me to be there....I can go home...sure, but with no pay!!!
That isn't bad if it is only another week, but what if I don't have the baby for 3 weeks, and am only there for 2 hours every day!!!!! I can't afford that!!!!!
I can ask the doctor to sign disability papers, but I'm not sure they will, since technically I am not unable to work, or having major complications with the pregnancy, it is just the heat!!!
So....I have to go in tomorrow, (I have been off work, unpaid since Monday, because they (work) couldn't decide what to do about this until this afternoon) and I have to take a themometer, and keep an eye on the temp. I am going to feel like a dork saying, Oh it's 80 degrees, see ya later! And I won't get paid!!!!
So I feel like I have to choose between my health and what is good for the baby, and having enough money to pay the bills.
I just really needed to get this off my chest!!!! I see no reason they couldn't have put me in the office somewhere for a couple weeks.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Monday I had some really bad pains, so hubby took me to the hospital, but it was only false labor. It stopped shortly after that. But while I was there, the doctor told me I shouldn't be working in really hot conditions, since I am so far along, and my feet and ankles swell up so bad in the heat and I get really sick to my stomach.
Well, I work in a factory, and it gets terribly hot in there, sometimes up to 100 degrees or better, and so the doctor wrote me a note saying I shouldn't be working in heat over 80 degrees.
Well it hits 80 degrees at about 9:00 am, I work from 7am-3pm.
So I thought maybe they could find me something to do in the office for awhile, I am due anytime between now and the end of this month, so it would only be a couple weeks or so, unless I go past my due date (god forbid).
I have been there 13 years, so you would think they could accommodate me somewhat, and let me file papers or something....it is air conditioned in there....but oh no!!!!! That would just be too much to ask!!! They told me if they do this for me, they would have to do it for everybody!!! Ya, like everybody has a note from their doctor saying they can't work in temps above 80.
So they told me that I will have to drive into work every morning, and just keep an eye on a themometer...and when it reaches 80, I can leave. Well some days that may be only 2 hours after I get there!! And some days it might be 80 already when I walk in the door! It gets really hot in there, very fast, because of the ovens in the middle of the factory that burn lacquer onto the wires we work with.
And also.......not only that, but I won't get paid everytime it gets too hot for me to be there....I can go home...sure, but with no pay!!!
That isn't bad if it is only another week, but what if I don't have the baby for 3 weeks, and am only there for 2 hours every day!!!!! I can't afford that!!!!!
I can ask the doctor to sign disability papers, but I'm not sure they will, since technically I am not unable to work, or having major complications with the pregnancy, it is just the heat!!!
So....I have to go in tomorrow, (I have been off work, unpaid since Monday, because they (work) couldn't decide what to do about this until this afternoon) and I have to take a themometer, and keep an eye on the temp. I am going to feel like a dork saying, Oh it's 80 degrees, see ya later! And I won't get paid!!!!
So I feel like I have to choose between my health and what is good for the baby, and having enough money to pay the bills.
I just really needed to get this off my chest!!!! I see no reason they couldn't have put me in the office somewhere for a couple weeks.
Thanks for letting me vent.